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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Versace Executive Seat Fits Bizliner

In collaboration with TAG Aircraft Interiors, Italian design house Gianni Versace of Milan continues to move into the business aviation cabin.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Coming To America: An Aircraft Interiors Show

Reed Exhibitions’ Aircraft Interiors Expo team is launching a new event for the Americas.
Aircraft

Mesa takes first CRJ900

Bombardier last month delivered the first production example of its newest regional jet, the CRJ900, to Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group.

Continental defers Embraer deliveries

Continental Airlines and Brazil’s Embraer last month agreed to defer deliveries on 60 fifty-seat ERJ-145XRs jets by as much as two years, sending stock pri

Air Canada threatens sale of Jazz

Air Canada last month suggested the potential sale of Air Canada Jazz, just as executives prepared to meet with key unions to discuss cost cuts at its mone

Chautauqua breaks with America West; expands Delta deal

America West’s decision to close its hub in Columbus, Ohio, has forced it to sever its relationship with code-share partner Chautauqua Airlines.

ExpressJet pilots to staff new CommutAir base

CommutAir’s flight operations department accelerated preparations last month for a major expansion scheduled to start March 16 in Cleveland, where the Plat
Cabin Interior and Electronics

B/E Offers an Executive Seat Designed for Bliss

B/E Aerospace has begun deliveries of its new UltimateComfort executive seat with adjustments ranging from “comfortable” to “bliss.” The Miami-based compan

From the inside out, ASA helps build Delta's future

As Atlantic Southeast Airlines president Skip Barnette maintains, few established companies emerge from a five-year, 25-percent annual growth plan untouche
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Alto Aviation Wins Audio Contract for Legacy 600s

Embraer Executive Aircraft has selected Alto Aviation of Leominster, Mass., as the baseline cabin entertainment audio system for all the Brazilian manufact
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Out With the Old, In With the New

Elliott Aviation recently completed its first transformation of a Hawker 700A cabin into an 800XP equivalent.
Aircraft

AvCraft finds bargain in 328 program deal

Leesburg, Va.-based AvCraft last month signed a contract to buy the Fairchild Dornier 328 program and its associated support businesses.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Lufthansa Technik Cabin System Picked for Challenger 300

German interiors specialist Lufthansa Technik will be providing its network integrated cabin equipment (Nice) system to Bombardier as standard equipment on
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Midcoast Offers the BlackBerry Connection

Midcoast Aviation in East Cahokia, Ill., is offering customers BlackBerry connectivity.
FBOs

Cutter PHX offers new amenities

Cutter Aviation celebrated the opening of the new crew lounge and flight-planning/business center at its FBO at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
FBOs

Encore FBO welcomes high schoolers

On October 16, Encore FBO’s Frederick, Md.
FBOs

Oakland's BJC adds new hangar

Business Jet Center’s Oakland, Calif.
FBOs

FBO Profile: Maguire Aviation

Up-and-coming FBO company Maguire Aviation is now the largest leaseholder at Van Nuys Airport in Southern California, having bought the former Million Air
FBOs

ProJet opens at Winchester

Business jet operators in the Washington, D.C.
FBOs

Avitat Boca gets new owner

Hamid Hashemi’s LAH Aviation Holdings purchased Avitat Boca Raton from Muvico Theaters on October 30.
FBOs

Signature adds FBO in Florida

In addition to buying Carolina Air Center on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island in September, Signature Flight Support has also purchased Marathon Flight
FBOs

New Arcadia hangars completed

Arcadia Aviation’s new 23,000-sq-ft hangar facility at Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport in Martinsburg, W.Va., was finished in the middle of last mon
FBOs

Tac Air adds 12th FBO

FBO chain Tac Air now owns 12 FBOs, having purchased the Southern Jet FBO at Raleigh/Durham International Airport (RDU).
FBOs

Elliott builds FBO at DSM

Elliott Aviation is building a new $8 million FBO to replace its existing facility at Des Moines International Airport (DSM).
Maintenance and Modifications

Torqued: Training for maintenance techs needs overhaul

Most maintainers believe that the aviation industry focuses on the flight 99.9 percent of the time, allotting the remaining 0.1 percent for the other aviat
Maintenance and Modifications

MRO Profile: Vitesse Aviation Services

Darnell Martens, president and CEO of Vitesse, has devoted his career to business aviation.
Maintenance and Modifications

Turkish MRO chooses Maintenix

Mxi Technologies has announced that Teknik Servis Sanayi Ticaret (myTechnic), a start-up MRO facility in Turkey, has selected the Maintenix maintenance man
Maintenance and Modifications

Ameco Beijing breaks ground for central warehouse

Ameco Beijing has begun construction on an 86,300-sq-ft, 50-foot-tall central warehouse scheduled to be operational next October.
Maintenance and Modifications

GE signs Dubai MOU

GE Aviation and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) have signed a memorandum of understanding for global cooperation.As part of the agreement, GE
Maintenance and Modifications

LTT joins European Aerospace Quality Group

ASD’s European Aerospace Quality Group (EAQG) and Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that calls for LTT, a